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Extremely Important Action for NH Residents to Take:

Comments needed! Email to comments@wildlife.nh.gov Before June 25. Subject line must say “Rules”

Your Presence is needed! At Fish & Game headquarters on Monday, June 15, at 6:30 pm

 Fish & Game is proposing a new rule that would allow sporting clubs to have an annual youth pheasant hunt on the Saturday prior to September 29. (The regular pheasant hunting season is October 1 until December 31.)  As is the case with the regular pheasant hunt, non-native, farm-raised pheasants will be bought and released for this one day annual event. Based on what we have seen happen in the regular pheasant hunt, it is likely that the pheasants will be released in front of the children and shooting will be permitted within minutes of the bird’s release from the crates.  If the idea of children being taught to kill animals raised in captivity disturbs you, please do the following:  

 Fish & Game has a rulemaking notice about this posted on their website: http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Legislative/Notices_summary.htm    To offer input on proposed rules during open comment periods, send written comments by the posted deadline to: comments@wildlife.nh.gov  (subject line must say "Rules"); or mail to Executive Director, N.H. Fish and Game Department, 11 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301; or FAX to (603) 271-1438.

 

When any state agency proposes rule changes, they are required to listen to public comment, so please let your voice be heard by writing to Fish and Game with your polite comments.  Come to the hearing on June 15th at Fish & Game Headquarters in Concord. They need to hear from us to stop this very bad idea. A letter to the editor is posted below which may help you in writing your own comments.

 

Thanks so very much everyone.

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Talking points:

- This isn’t fair chase hunting which NH Fish and Game claims to believe in.  Instead, it resembles a canned hunt, the kind of “hunting” that takes place at hunting preserves where captive animals are killed for the fun of it.

- It will teach kids how to kill, not how to hunt.

- This is just one more attempt by F&G to increase the popularity of hunting. Times are changing and with it F&G should too. Instead they should be working on projects which will allow children (and adults) to participate in non-violent activities like wildlife photography, bird watching, habitat restoration, biodiversity and conservation classes.

 

Source:   Foster's Daily Democrat online (NH) 5/26/09

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090526-OPINION-90526029

Letter to the Editor

May 26, 2009 12:22 PM

Pheasant hunt a bad idea

To the Editor:
N.H. Fish & Game wants a new rule to allow fish and game clubs to release farm-raised ring-necked pheasants for kids 12 to 15 to kill on the Saturday before Sept. 29 each year. Why? They say the Youth Pheasant Event is to promote New Hampshire's special heritage and to teach hunting practices.Which heritage, the controversial one of hunting non-native, farm-raised pheasants in places stocked by N.H. Fish & Game? Or, that it’s OK for adults to create phony hunting opportunities by releasing animals for kids to kill?The phony “hunt,” might mean the release of pheasants from a tower to be shot at from down below, as is done at some of N.H.’s private bird hunting preserves; or, something like the adult pheasant release when many times shooting begins as the birds are taking their first flights of freedom. Some hunting lesson this would be.The youth pheasant canned hunt day is doomed to become infamous and targeted by humane educators and animal rights activists alike.The public hearing is Monday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m. at N.H. Fish & Game headquarters, with comments through June 25 to comments@wildlife.state.nh.us. For more information contact info@nhanimalrights.org. With everyone’s comments and help it is possible to stop this very bad idea.  If anyone would like to get more involved in ending pheasant stocking please contact us. Pheasant hunting season is October 1 to December 31.

This is an ongoing campaign that needs everyone's attention. Each year our Fish and Game Department purchases ring-necked pheasants from a breeding farm. These helpless, farm-bred and raised pheasants are jammed into crates, driven the hours long transport, and then released into the fields of New Hampshire for hunters to shoot, often minutes after they are released.

Please join us in speaking out.

Learn more about pheasant stocking and the Humane Society of the US campaign against it here.
 
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